Music Trade Review
Issue: 1904 Vol. 39 N. 16 - Page 8
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
8
REVIEW
EDWARD LYMAN DILL.
Hditor and Proprietor.
J. B. SP1LLANE. Manatflnrf Editor.
EXECUTIVE
STAFr:
THOI. CAMFBELL-COPELAND,
Gio. B. KELLEK,
W. MUEDOCH LlND,
A. J. NICKLIM,
EKNUT L. WAITT, 256 Washington St.
R. W. KAUFFMAN.
GEO.
W. QUBKIPBL.
CHICAQO OFFICE:
BOSTON OFFICE:
PHILADELPHIA OFFICE:
EMILIE FIANCES BAUKB,
E. P. VAN HARLINCEN, 86 La Salle St.
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL:
R. J. LSFEBVBE.
SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE:
ST. LOUIS OFFICE :
CHAI. N. VAN BVRBN.
ALFRED METZOEB, 426-427 Front S t
PublisKcd Every Saturday at 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage), United States, Mexico and Canada, $2.00 per
year; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount is allowed.
Advertising Pages, $50.00; opposite
reading matter, $75.00.
REMITTANCES,
in other than currency form, should be made payable to Kdward
Lyman Bill.
THE ARTISTS'
DEPARTMENT
On the first Saturday of each month The Review contains in its
"Artists' Department" all the current musical news. This is effected
without in any way trespassing on the size or service of the trade
section of the paper. I t has a special circulation, and therefore aug-
ments materially the value of The Review to advertisers.
n n r r T A D V ^ Ritiin T' l e directory of piano manufacturing firms and corporations
UIA.LI.IUKI tf riAnu found on page 30 will be of great value, as a reference for
MANUFACTURERS
dealers and others.
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE-NUMBER
1745 GRAMERCY.
NEW YORK. OCT. 15, 1904.
ARDS indicating the grade of awards approved by the Superior
Jury were distributed in the music trade section at the World's
Fair last week, and although no exhibitor is warranted in making
any announcement until a formal notification has been received, it
was well known on Friday the grade which each exhibitor was to
receive.
The splendid recognition which the Baldwin Company have
won in two grand prizes will be approved by a jury composed of all
who have viewed the superb educational exhibit created by this great
piano-producing concern. It is a broad statement, but nevertheless
a true one, that the llaldwin Company placed in evidence at St.
Louis the most comprehensive exhibit ever made at a world's fair,
showing every department of piano making—every
variety
of wood, every kind of metal, felts, ivories; in fact, everything that
enters into the making of pianos.
C
T
HAT the Jury viewed the Ualdwin exhibit with such favor is
but placing the stamp of official approval upon an exhibit
which reflects credit upon the entire music trade industry, and has
behind it an educational force that is of obvious benefit to the craft
generally.
While there are bound to be some disappointed ones at this ex-
position, yet all cannot win grand prizes at expositions any more
than the grand prize in life or business.
I
T may be of interest to say that more than [,250 persons were
engaged in judging ami passing upon the merits of the thou-
sands of exhibits at the World's Fair. They are known as group
jurors, department jurors and superior jurors. The group jurors
are appointed by the Exposition officers, each group organizing by
electing a chairman and vice-chairman. The officers of the various
groups constitute what are known as department jurors, and the
officers of the department jurors become superior jurors. The jurors
began their work of passing on exhibits more than six weeks ago.
Foreign and domestic jurors were about equally divided in their re-
spective groups and every country in the civilized world was repre-
sented in the list of one or more of these groups.
I
T was the duty of the jury to carefully examine all exhibits pertain-
ing to the group to which it had been assigned. It had
also to consider and pass upon the merits of the collaborators
whose work may be conspicuous in the design, development or con-
struction of the exhibit.
Separate lists were then prepared, presenting the names of such
exhibitors as are out of competition; awards recommended to col-
laborators in the order of merit; a report giving an account of the
most important objects exhibited and a general account of the group
as a whole. When these reports are certified to the chief of the de-
partment to which they belong, the department jurors review and
pass on the report, after which the superior jurors review the report
and then the awards are announced.
The following scale of markings are used in determining the
final merits of an exhibit and fixing the award, 100 being used as in-
dicating perfection.
E
XHIBITS receiving markings ranging from 60 to 74, inclusive,
bronze medal; exhibits receiving markings ranging from 75
to 84, inclusive, silver medal; exhibits receiving markings ranging
from 85 to 94, inclusive, gold medal; exhibits receiving markings
ranging from 95 to 100, inclusive, grand prize.
There were more jurors at work at the Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position than there were engaged at either the World's Fair at
Chicago or Paris. The total number of jurors of the International
Jury of Awards, at the St. Louis World's Fair, are approximately
2 per cent, of the total number of exhibitors, and each nation having
fifty exhibitors or more was entitled to representation on the jury.
The desire for recognition or superiority is said-to be the motive
or basis for all competition, whether in physical or in mental achieve-
ment. Artists, scientists, manufacturers and producers generally,
make expositions possible, and make them a success in proportion
to the way they regard the character of the awards which are to
be given by such expositions.
Every country in the world was represented in the various juries
each in the group or groups in which it was an exhibitor in propor-
tion to the number of exhibits it has at the Fair. These jurors were
picked from the leading thinkers and producers of the various coun-
tries they represent.
Ihe international character of the jury is apparent, and the cos-
mopolitan examination which each exhibit has received cannot fail
to be observed by those most interested. There were in all 140
groups of exhibitors consisting of 40.000 exhibits, according to
the official classification. With a few exceptions, where two groups
were combined, there was a jury for each group.
T
HE diplomas or certificates oi award for exhibitors will be signed
by the president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Com-
pany, the president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commis-
sion, the Secretary of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company,
the Director of Exhibits and the Chief of the Department to which
the exhibit pertains.
Special commemorative medals and diplomas will be issued to
the officers of the Exposition, to United States, State and foreign
commissioners, to the members of the International Jury of Awards,
and to such other persons as may be deemed worthy of special recog-
nition.
The diploma is, of course, the most valuable prize, as it tells
who won it, what such exhibit was, who exhibited it, and is signed
by all the leading Exposition officers.
D
URING the past three weeks we have met a great many piano
dealers from various parts of the great Southwest, and as
that vast country is now a splendid piano distributing section it may-
be of more than passing interest to note the optimistic opinions of
those men who are on the ground, and whose views must command
serious attention.
The bumper cotton crop, and the splendid condition of agri-
culture generally in that country gives the people a purchasing-
power which will enable them to buy pianos in larger quantities
than ever before. Piano merchants in the Southwest seem destined
to enjoy a prolonged season of prosperity, which should cause piano
manufacturers to get into close business touch with that section of
the countrv.
W
HAT will be the effect of this season's enormous yielc' of
cotton, coupled with higher prices, can oniv be interpreted
as meaning a vastly enormous sale, for all of the accessories which
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
8
REVIEW
EDWARD LYMAN DILL.
Hditor and Proprietor.
J. B. SP1LLANE. Manatflnrf Editor.
EXECUTIVE
STAFr:
THOI. CAMFBELL-COPELAND,
Gio. B. KELLEK,
W. MUEDOCH LlND,
A. J. NICKLIM,
EKNUT L. WAITT, 256 Washington St.
R. W. KAUFFMAN.
GEO.
W. QUBKIPBL.
CHICAQO OFFICE:
BOSTON OFFICE:
PHILADELPHIA OFFICE:
EMILIE FIANCES BAUKB,
E. P. VAN HARLINCEN, 86 La Salle St.
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL:
R. J. LSFEBVBE.
SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE:
ST. LOUIS OFFICE :
CHAI. N. VAN BVRBN.
ALFRED METZOEB, 426-427 Front S t
PublisKcd Every Saturday at 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage), United States, Mexico and Canada, $2.00 per
year; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount is allowed.
Advertising Pages, $50.00; opposite
reading matter, $75.00.
REMITTANCES,
in other than currency form, should be made payable to Kdward
Lyman Bill.
THE ARTISTS'
DEPARTMENT
On the first Saturday of each month The Review contains in its
"Artists' Department" all the current musical news. This is effected
without in any way trespassing on the size or service of the trade
section of the paper. I t has a special circulation, and therefore aug-
ments materially the value of The Review to advertisers.
n n r r T A D V ^ Ritiin T' l e directory of piano manufacturing firms and corporations
UIA.LI.IUKI tf riAnu found on page 30 will be of great value, as a reference for
MANUFACTURERS
dealers and others.
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE-NUMBER
1745 GRAMERCY.
NEW YORK. OCT. 15, 1904.
ARDS indicating the grade of awards approved by the Superior
Jury were distributed in the music trade section at the World's
Fair last week, and although no exhibitor is warranted in making
any announcement until a formal notification has been received, it
was well known on Friday the grade which each exhibitor was to
receive.
The splendid recognition which the Baldwin Company have
won in two grand prizes will be approved by a jury composed of all
who have viewed the superb educational exhibit created by this great
piano-producing concern. It is a broad statement, but nevertheless
a true one, that the llaldwin Company placed in evidence at St.
Louis the most comprehensive exhibit ever made at a world's fair,
showing every department of piano making—every
variety
of wood, every kind of metal, felts, ivories; in fact, everything that
enters into the making of pianos.
C
T
HAT the Jury viewed the Ualdwin exhibit with such favor is
but placing the stamp of official approval upon an exhibit
which reflects credit upon the entire music trade industry, and has
behind it an educational force that is of obvious benefit to the craft
generally.
While there are bound to be some disappointed ones at this ex-
position, yet all cannot win grand prizes at expositions any more
than the grand prize in life or business.
I
T may be of interest to say that more than [,250 persons were
engaged in judging ami passing upon the merits of the thou-
sands of exhibits at the World's Fair. They are known as group
jurors, department jurors and superior jurors. The group jurors
are appointed by the Exposition officers, each group organizing by
electing a chairman and vice-chairman. The officers of the various
groups constitute what are known as department jurors, and the
officers of the department jurors become superior jurors. The jurors
began their work of passing on exhibits more than six weeks ago.
Foreign and domestic jurors were about equally divided in their re-
spective groups and every country in the civilized world was repre-
sented in the list of one or more of these groups.
I
T was the duty of the jury to carefully examine all exhibits pertain-
ing to the group to which it had been assigned. It had
also to consider and pass upon the merits of the collaborators
whose work may be conspicuous in the design, development or con-
struction of the exhibit.
Separate lists were then prepared, presenting the names of such
exhibitors as are out of competition; awards recommended to col-
laborators in the order of merit; a report giving an account of the
most important objects exhibited and a general account of the group
as a whole. When these reports are certified to the chief of the de-
partment to which they belong, the department jurors review and
pass on the report, after which the superior jurors review the report
and then the awards are announced.
The following scale of markings are used in determining the
final merits of an exhibit and fixing the award, 100 being used as in-
dicating perfection.
E
XHIBITS receiving markings ranging from 60 to 74, inclusive,
bronze medal; exhibits receiving markings ranging from 75
to 84, inclusive, silver medal; exhibits receiving markings ranging
from 85 to 94, inclusive, gold medal; exhibits receiving markings
ranging from 95 to 100, inclusive, grand prize.
There were more jurors at work at the Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position than there were engaged at either the World's Fair at
Chicago or Paris. The total number of jurors of the International
Jury of Awards, at the St. Louis World's Fair, are approximately
2 per cent, of the total number of exhibitors, and each nation having
fifty exhibitors or more was entitled to representation on the jury.
The desire for recognition or superiority is said-to be the motive
or basis for all competition, whether in physical or in mental achieve-
ment. Artists, scientists, manufacturers and producers generally,
make expositions possible, and make them a success in proportion
to the way they regard the character of the awards which are to
be given by such expositions.
Every country in the world was represented in the various juries
each in the group or groups in which it was an exhibitor in propor-
tion to the number of exhibits it has at the Fair. These jurors were
picked from the leading thinkers and producers of the various coun-
tries they represent.
Ihe international character of the jury is apparent, and the cos-
mopolitan examination which each exhibit has received cannot fail
to be observed by those most interested. There were in all 140
groups of exhibitors consisting of 40.000 exhibits, according to
the official classification. With a few exceptions, where two groups
were combined, there was a jury for each group.
T
HE diplomas or certificates oi award for exhibitors will be signed
by the president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Com-
pany, the president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commis-
sion, the Secretary of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company,
the Director of Exhibits and the Chief of the Department to which
the exhibit pertains.
Special commemorative medals and diplomas will be issued to
the officers of the Exposition, to United States, State and foreign
commissioners, to the members of the International Jury of Awards,
and to such other persons as may be deemed worthy of special recog-
nition.
The diploma is, of course, the most valuable prize, as it tells
who won it, what such exhibit was, who exhibited it, and is signed
by all the leading Exposition officers.
D
URING the past three weeks we have met a great many piano
dealers from various parts of the great Southwest, and as
that vast country is now a splendid piano distributing section it may-
be of more than passing interest to note the optimistic opinions of
those men who are on the ground, and whose views must command
serious attention.
The bumper cotton crop, and the splendid condition of agri-
culture generally in that country gives the people a purchasing-
power which will enable them to buy pianos in larger quantities
than ever before. Piano merchants in the Southwest seem destined
to enjoy a prolonged season of prosperity, which should cause piano
manufacturers to get into close business touch with that section of
the countrv.
W
HAT will be the effect of this season's enormous yielc' of
cotton, coupled with higher prices, can oniv be interpreted
as meaning a vastly enormous sale, for all of the accessories which
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